Radio Active #56: Facebook, Morphing Toddlers, Heroic Cthulhu

On this edition of Radio Active, Nuketown ventures into Facebook, the epic MacQuest gets an update (and the nifty new/old iPod nano arrives) and Halo 3 looms like a shadow over all that we do. We’ve got Mighty Morphing Toddlers as NeutronLad walks and talks like never before, and StarGirls delves deep into Princess Star Wars.

Netheads round out the podcast with Heroic Cthulhu, a podcast/alternative ruleset that lets characters live more than one session and Starship Dimensions, a web site for sizing up ships from myriad TV shows and movies..

Getting the Show

Show Notes

The Mac has been ordered; still waiting for it to ship in 2d4+3 days. It’s companion iPod — a 4 GB nano — arrived today. Turns out that the nano is great for the gym; barely even notice it while working out.

Trying to finish up loose ends and achievements in BioShock so I can trade it in for Halo 3, which looms large on the geek horizon. Simply can not wait for the game arrive.

My review of the Battlestar Galactica RPG is up on SCIFI.com

NeutronLad is swiftly moving from baby to toddler. Ever since starting to walk in July, he’s been growing rapidly — he walks everywhere now and has started to expand his vocabulary, including “momma”, “down”, “no”, something like “dado” which alternatively means “Daddy” and “dog”.

Also becoming more opinionated; lets you know what he likes and doesn’t like (sometimes by pushing it away, maybe saying “no”).

And he kisses.

Fascinating to watch him go from grunting and screaming as his primary means of communication to actually talking.

StarGirl has become obsessed with Star Wars since our return from Indiana; we listened to the soundtracks to the Original Trilogy on the way out and back. Naturally I had to narrate.

However, since she’s never actually seen Star Wars, what she knows of it is based on what I’ve told her and what she’s seen in Star Wars LEGOS.

This has given rise to her playing “Star Wars” a lot, which seems to be the same as her normal princess games, but with star wars names substituted (she’s Princess Leia; her “husband” is a large rabbit named “Han Solo”).

What happens when she actually sees Star Wars and has to reconcile these two visions … I have no idea.

When should kids see Star Wars? In StarGirl case, it may be when she’s 4.5 or 5; she gets scared pretty easily (still has a hard time with robots in the Incredibles).

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.